I created an enhancement request in the "jai-imageio" group (BugID: 4),
but after I submitted the request, I realize it should have been under
the "jai-imageio-core" group. Should I recreate the request in the
"jai-imageio-core" group? Or is it fine where it is?

(Message from ImageIO group:)
> Normally you would get the information from the image metadata. If you are using the JAI-Image I/O Tools ImageReader plug-in then the IIOMetadata object will be null as described in the table here:
> http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jai/forDevelopers/jai-imageio-1_...
>
> The Java SE Image I/O JPEG ImageReader plug-in does support metadata however. Unfortunately it supports only baseline JPEG up to 8 pits per sample.
>
> Eventually we would like to add metadata support to the JAI-Image I/O plug-in but this is not in the plan right now. If there is interest in this then someone should file an enhancement issue and people should vote for it. The only bug on file presently is in the java.sun.com bug database:
>
> 4782745 codec_imagei 5 Image I/O Tools JPEG reader should emit standard metadata
>
> and it only deals with standard image metadata.
>
> Brian
>
Michael J Hess wrote:
> I posted this to the ImageIO interest group, but realized the
> information might not be there, as the Image Reader I am using comes
> from the JAI ImageIO Tools package....
>
> I am trying to discover compression information from a compressed
> image using the ImageIO framework. I would like to be able to get
> decoder information, and compression information (Ratio, quality, etc).
>
> Currently, I am working in the Jpeg area: I would like to be able to
> see some of the compression parameters that were used the the JPEG,
> (lossy, lossless, progressive info, etc).
>
> Is there an example of how to do this?
>
> Currently, I am doing something liks this:
>
> //create an Image Input Stream for reading.
> ImageInputStream iis = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(is);
>
> //get the "readers" that claim to be able to read this image
> input stream.
> Iterator imageReaders = ImageIO.getImageReaders(iis);
>
> ImageReader ir = imageReaders.next();
>
> //set the input of the ImageReader
> ir.setInput(iis);
>
> //read the first image in the stream.
> IIOImage imagePackage = ir.readAll(0, null);
>
> IIOMetadata iiom = imagePackage.getMetadata();
>
> RenderedImage ri = imagePackage.getRenderedImage();
>
> What I get back is a object for the IIOMetadata , and a
> regular, Renderd Image for the image data. reading the image is
> working fine, I just am unable to get any details about how the image
> was compressed in the first place... jpeg, jpeg-lossless, jpeg-ls,
> compression levels, etc.
>
> If anyone can lend a hand, that would be great.
>
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On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Michael J Hess wrote:

> I created an enhancement request in the "jai-imageio" group (BugID: 4), but
> after I submitted the request, I realize it should have been under the
> "jai-imageio-core" group. Should I recreate the request in the
> "jai-imageio-core" group? Or is it fine where it is?
>
> (Message from ImageIO group:)
>> Normally you would get the information from the image metadata. If you are
>> using the JAI-Image I/O Tools ImageReader plug-in then the IIOMetadata
>> object will be null as described in the table here:
>> http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jai/forDevelopers/jai-imageio-1_...
>>
>> The Java SE Image I/O JPEG ImageReader plug-in does support metadata
>> however. Unfortunately it supports only baseline JPEG up to 8 pits per
>> sample.
>>
>> Eventually we would like to add metadata support to the JAI-Image I/O
>> plug-in but this is not in the plan right now. If there is interest in this
>> then someone should file an enhancement issue and people should vote for
>> it. The only bug on file presently is in the java.sun.com bug database:
>>
>> 4782745 codec_imagei 5 Image I/O Tools JPEG reader should emit standard
>> metadata
>>
>> and it only deals with standard image metadata.
>>
>> Brian
>>
> Michael J Hess wrote:
>> I posted this to the ImageIO interest group, but realized the information
>> might not be there, as the Image Reader I am using comes from the JAI
>> ImageIO Tools package....
>>
>> I am trying to discover compression information from a compressed image
>> using the ImageIO framework. I would like to be able to get decoder
>> information, and compression information (Ratio, quality, etc).
>>
>> Currently, I am working in the Jpeg area: I would like to be able to see
>> some of the compression parameters that were used the the JPEG, (lossy,
>> lossless, progressive info, etc).
>>
>> Is there an example of how to do this?
>>
>> Currently, I am doing something liks this:
>>
>> //create an Image Input Stream for reading.
>> ImageInputStream iis = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(is);
>> //get the "readers" that claim to be able to read this image
>> input stream.
>> Iterator imageReaders = ImageIO.getImageReaders(iis);
>>
>> ImageReader ir = imageReaders.next();
>> //set the input of the ImageReader
>> ir.setInput(iis);
>> //read the first image in the stream.
>> IIOImage imagePackage = ir.readAll(0, null);
>>
>> IIOMetadata iiom = imagePackage.getMetadata();
>>
>> RenderedImage ri = imagePackage.getRenderedImage();
>>
>> What I get back is a object for the IIOMetadata , and a regular,
>> Renderd Image for the image data. reading the image is working fine, I
>> just am unable to get any details about how the image was compressed in the
>> first place... jpeg, jpeg-lossless, jpeg-ls, compression levels, etc.
>>
>> If anyone can lend a hand, that would be great.
>>
> --
> *_Michael J Hess_*
>
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